Chapter 1020 - We Will

”NO!”

The Three Ancient Ones forced a multitude of tentacles into Li Huowang’s head and squeezed his brain apart.

Qing Wanglai yelled, “You idiots! My plan is the only chance we have to escape this calamity!”

Li Huowang gripped Qing Wanglai’s tentacles tightly, refusing to let go. “No! You were right when you said someone betrayed us—it was you! Qing Wanglai, your fear of Fu Shengtian made you mad! And in your madness, you’ve turned the entire world crazy! The Liang Kingdom, the Qi Kingdom, the Tianchen Kingdom—everything that happened to them is all your fault!”

Qing Wanglai froze, as though a memory had resurfaced.

Li Huowang continued, “Three Ancient Ones, you weren’t always like this! Zhuge Yuan was your Twisted One, don’t you remember? The compassion you once had was twisted into cruelty, and it was all because of Fu Shengtian’s influence!”

Indeed, a Twisted One and a Siming were supposed to mirror each other, with the same personality. However, the Three Ancient Ones had taken a completely different path.

Qing Wanglai’s pupils contracted as he stared at his bloodstained hands. A strange feeling tugged at his heart, but he quickly shook it off.

“You lunatic! You incomprehensible madman! Everything I’ve done has been to save the world! Why can’t you see that?” Qing Wanglai roared.

Black karmic chains of secrets swiftly pierced into Li Huowang’s body, gradually causing him to become translucent.

As more and more secrets about Fu Shengtian poured into Li Huowang, the fear within his heart began to bloom and impact his behavior.

The other Simings rushed to help, but the Three Ancient Ones self-detonated, scattering more karmic chains everywhere. Each chain carried secrets about Fu Shengtian, infecting the Simings with fear and despair.

Only then did Li Huowang realize that Fu Shengtian’s attack had begun long ago, and Qing Wanglai was its agent. Every action he took had been a calculated move to spread the despair and fear of Fu Shengtian.

“No... I cannot,” Li Huowang said.

Fighting back the suffocating dread, Li Huowang reached for the mirror, but the fear and despair shattered it into shards.

“Li Huowang, help me!” Ji Zai shouted at his reflection in one of the mirror’s shards.

Li Huowang’s reflection shouted back, “Promise me, Ji Zai! Promise you’ll bring them all back! Too many have died. There’s no one left down here!”

On the edge of being consumed by fear, Ji Zai replied, “I promise! I’ll change everything! I’ll fix everything! I’ll bring them all back!”

From the depths of Baiyu Capital, a roar erupted. Tens of Jiang Xiangshous appeared, their murderous aura repelling the pervasive fear like lanterns piercing the dark.

It wasn’t just the Jiang Xiangshous. Li Huowang saw several Dragon Veins flying towards him. All of the Dragon Veins were here.

“Senior Li, we’re here to help!”

Gao Zhijian charged through the fear, crashing into Li Huowang and reinforcing him with solidified murderous aura. The Heavenly Dao of Order prevented Li Huowang from turning transparent.

However, Li Huowang still felt that something was missing.

He didn’t know what it was, but he laid his eyes on the shards of the mirror. He sunk his hands into the shards of the mirror and pulled. At that moment, Ji Zai plundered everything from him.

The mirror vanished. Only Ji Zai remained in the Baiyu Capital.

As the fear disorientating him disappeared, Li Huowang regained his freedom, but it wasn’t over. The Baiyu Capital was still shrouded in fear.

Li Huowang looked up at the Three Ancient Ones and understood that he wasn’t fighting against the Three Ancient Ones. No, he had been fighting against Fu Shengtian from the very beginning.

Under his gaze, the bloody fleshy tentacles enveloping the karmic chain of secrets expanded and morphed into a fleshy hand. Li Huowang knew that this was Fu Shengtian’s hand.

The hand reached out to grab him. Its numerous tentacles wriggled, attempting to instill fear into his very being.

The indomitable murderous aura scattered everything, but it merely delayed the inevitable. Ji Zai realized that if this continued, he would succumb to terror, just like the Three Ancient Ones did when the murderous aura emanating from his body dissipated.

Seeing how fear consumed the other Simings, Ji Zai had an idea. If he couldn’t do it alone, he could use the powers of the other Simings.

Li Huowang, still shrouded in murderous aura, approached the Siming of Rot. Just as he was going to act, he paused.

There was a familiar face on the rotten corpse—Abbess Jingxin. The maggots had formed her visage. She smiled and nodded at him kindly.

“Abbess... Thank you...” Li Huowang cried and swallowed the Heavenly Dao of Rot whole. He tried not to chew and hurt her.

Jiang Xiangshou’s murderous aura quickly dispelled the fear gripping the Heavenly Dao of Rot. Li Huowang absorbed the Heavenly Dao of Rot once it had returned to normal, and the wounds on his body started to rot.

Ba-Hui and the Sacrificial God stabbed into Li Huowang like two sharp blades, delivering the Heavenly Dao of Pain in a flood of agony.

He yelled, “Ba-Hui, you motherfucker! It hurts!”

Li Huowang turned and saw Zhao Shuangdian standing still. She passed the sniper rifle to him.

Zhao Shuangdian stood cold and calculated, just like her former self. “I accept your model. You are very special indeed.”

He nodded and swallowed both the rifle and Zhao Shuangdian.

With this, he finally learned what Siming Zhao Shuangdian was. She was the Heavenly Immortal.

Still, he didn’t know what kind of Heavenly Dao she held onto. He only knew that his body had become much more robust.

As he absorbed more Heavenly Daos, the entirety of the Baiyu Capital started to crumble. Li Huowang picked up the pace.

His body became bigger and bigger, to the point that even the Baiyu Capital could not contain him.

The fleshy tentacles oozed fear as they tried to suppress Li Huowang. The Three Ancient Ones made repeated attempts to pierce Li Huowang with his tentacles, but the murderous aura got in the way.

Li Huowang consumed all of the Heavenly Daos and finally laid eyes on the Heavenly Mater. He paused, but the Heavenly Mater smiled at him.

“Don’t give up, Huowang. I believe in you. We’ll bring Suisui back, and we’ll go to university together.”

Pain stabbed through his heart, amplified by the Heavenly Dao of Pain. Li Huowang’s physical form started to crumble.

He didn’t want to do it, but he had no choice. If he didn’t, Fu Shengtian’s fear would corrupt the Heavenly Dao of Death. Li Huowang had to prevent Fu Shengtian from obtaining the Heavenly Dao of Death, no matter what.

“Don’t worry. I won’t give up,” Li Huowang promised, his voice trembling. “I will do it. I definitely will. I’ll do whatever it takes.”

He embraced the Heavenly Mater—and swallowed her whole.